Best reference list ever.

[mandolin]

So while slogging through papers for my group research paper, I read the first item in a reference list that made me laugh out loud:

Ivan Marc Author. "Some related article I wrote." Some Fine Journal, 99(7): 1-100, January 1999.

This was in a published paper for an international conference. The very first item.

I don't know which would be funnier: if that ref got in there by accident and they totally missed it or if that was a genuine reference.

Heh.

Comments

[marag.livejournal.com]

Ha! It's part of the template for the conference proceedings, I'll bet.

Personally, when I write templates like that, I like to use Mickey Mouse, Bruce Wayne, Lois Lane...